About

The Book – Horizonbook

“How to write effective EU proposals” shows how to develop ideas,network, find partners and write a competitive proposal forHorizon 2020. It’s not a repetition of the officially available EUdocumentation, but an opinionated resource for those who want an effective guide through the often bureaucratic Horizon 2020 process.

The book also concentrates on networking and partner search forHorizon 2020. This problem is the major obstacle for starters.There’s no other resource, official or informal, which coversnetworking and the process of building a consortium at this level ofdetail. It’ll show you how to evaluate partners and form a lasting consortium based on mutual commitment.

The Author

Dr. Marc Hoffmann gained considerable experience working on, writingand evaluating proposals for funding agencies like the EU, the DutchNWO, French, South African and Dutch universities, and various government agencies.

Currently Marc applies scientific methods like time series analysis,heat transfer analysis and data science to solve real life problems.Examples are energy conservation policies, ultralight burner design and optimal choice.

Seeing capable scientists and research groups fail in participatingin EU funding led him to examine the root causes of this failure.He found that often it wasn’t the science or technical excellencethat led to failure. Often it came down to poor networking,unrealistic expectations, unbalanced partnerships and badly writtenproposals.

To help in fixing these issues Marc decided to write a book aboutgetting funding for Horizon 2020. You can reach Marc at marc.hoffmann@horizonbook.eu or fill in the form below.